יום שישי, 14 בנובמבר 2008

That 70's Show

T.V. series-comedy

Donna Pinciotti
Unemployed, high school student
Smart, red-head girl, very masculine, and has a deep voice.

Steven Hyde
Unemployed, high school student
The guy with the puffy curly hair, looks like a hippy but likes to fight.

Michael Kelso
Unemployed, high school student
The typical hot, girly boy, he's not very wise.

Jackie Burkhart
Unemployed, high school student
The rich, daddy's little spoiled girl that gets all that she wants.

Fez
Unemployed, high school student
The foreign exchange student that doesn't speak English well, he's very feminine.

Eric Forman
Unemployed, high school student
The very skinny weak geeky guy, all the friends always hang at his basement.

Laurie Forman
Unemployed, high school student
The stupid, hottest, and blond girl that had slept with all the guys in the neighborhood.


Summary:
My summary is that this series doesn’t follow the usual characteristics as in other series. First, the hippy supposes to be a peace lover while in this series likes to fight. Second, the geek, the hippy, the cool guy and the foreign exchange student will probably won't hang out together. Third, and last, the girl that is masculine supposes to be a lesbian, but she isn't. Actually, Eric and she is a couple. In addition, Fez, the very feminine guy, supposes to be gay, but actually, he likes girls very much and rarely hides in the closet and looks at couples.
On the other hand, the series does have some of the characteristics as in usual series. For example, the girl, Jackie, is usually spoiled and likes to act as a little girl. Another example is Laurie. Blond girls usually are stupid as her and sluty. A third and last example is Michael. He is the cool guy; they do usually, look too much in the mirror and love themselves the most.

יום שישי, 7 בנובמבר 2008

Out Foxed Reaction Essay

The news, a T.V.programe exicting to deliver the people important information about event around the globe that influence the national stability of the world, such as war. What if, someone had told you that all the news cast you hear everyday is just biased?
During English class, we had seen an astonishing video concerning Fox News. In the video, there were very important facts on how the program is running while affecting the sorroundings in a negative way
One of their tactics is to add many comercials to the program. Before a commercial they are discussing about an important event that they believe they viewers would not want to miss. Every six minutes of news broadcast there is a ten minute breake of advertisment. After the ads, they review all the events that were said for not loosong viewrs.
Another disturbing tactic is that the anchors use the sentence "some people say" when it is an opinion of them because thery are not allowed to be involved in such a way that is prsonal. While the anchors argue with the people they are reviewing the usually get into an unegriment and into a verbal conflict. During such a conflict, they do not try to piss the other person off, they simply try to squeez out needed information without them noticing it.
An upsetting fact relating to the anchors of Fox News is that 83% of the anchors are repulicans while 17% are democrats. Most of the anchors are liberal. There is a unique anchor in Fox New, I cannot recall his name thought, that frequently lies during the broadcast but he is a pathological liar and so cannot be sued and continous with his doings.
Reaserching well and giving correct and valueable informatioon is also very important in the news. However, most of the information being presented isn't usually origanal, their quality standard are low, some stories are not well researched and many of them are not really event stories but personal reflections. In addition, the events being told are being chosen weather or not they are interesting enough and being worthy of telling. Regularly, the stories are not even critical or as important as what is going on in the outside world. For examle, the news broadcast speaks plenty of celebrities and their personal life instead of informing us of the severe situation of women in Iraq and how the majority of the women there are drug addicts as a result of their everyday fear of survival and trouble of sleeping when every few seconds there are gun shots.
As a conclusion, the Fox News program cannot be trusted. But, many of the other news programg are being lead after Fox. So, from now on, each time i warch the news I would pay a great attention to the details ant wont believe to everything being said. Later on I would research the information being told by verious resources. Than, I will know weather to believe it or not.

יום שלישי, 30 בספטמבר 2008

Super Size Me Video

Both the reviews I have read were about the experiment Morgan Sparlock had done a whole month and how much weight he gained and damaged his liver severely. His experiment consisted of a fat-free diet by eating three times a day, meals only from McDonalds. In case his experiment succeeds of demonstrating that because of McDonalds he had gained much weight, he would be able to sue McDonalds...BIG s

In the review by McFrightening, he tells about Sparlock from a dark point of view. He insults him already on the first sentence of the text. McFrightening believes that the movie indicates that it's all McDonalds fault that obesity exists. In his review, McFrightening says: "ultimately it's the contention that fast food is the engine driving highlights the fact that because of Big Mac, people get massive heart attacks which concludes to the point in which, he believes, McDonalds should be closed down and the obesity percent would decreased.

At the review of David Edistin, there was also an unpleasant point of view towards Sparlock. It seamed Edistin had thought Sparlock had just played around with his body too see what would happen. In the review, Edistin also talks about how Sparlock had to consume 5,000 calories a day while accompanied by a small number of doctors and nutritionist. Edistin also pointed out that Sparlock had gained twenty-five pounds when he ate three meals a day, only at McDonalds; each time Sparlock was asked to super size, he had to accept. Edistin mention that in years before, he was also an obese person. But, he had exercised many months and eventually lost sixty pounds. His main point was that Sparlock did a mistake in the film, giving weight to lawyers suing McDonalds on behalf of obesity and that it is an easy target for libertarians. He revealed an opinion, that people should not sue McDonalds because of obesity; they should just stop eating from them.
I believe that both of the reviews are suitable but, I am still hanging in the middle. I am not sure to which side I rather believe in. I am certain though, that something should be done with in regard of McDonalds and their super sizing meals must be forbidden.

The Corporation Video

The corporation video is a very interesting subject that greatly emphasized some important issues, aspects, concerning Human Rights.

The fact that a corporation has the rights as a person is astonishing but also unusual.
Corporations are allowed to sue and be sued by either other coroperations or people. This knowledge really amazes me.

During the corporation video, there was a secret interview with Nike. There was also information about the cheep labor many corporations are involved in. These companies are using people, every day, for hours and hours but paying them only eight cents per an hour. That's absurd. These people are working their ass out every day for eighteen hours but get about three-tens of the product's price they are making.

Such sick people should be in prison. Another type of odd persons that should be punished for their doing and prisoners for life are those who believe that…"in devastation, there is opportunity." The kind of people who think of profit on the expense of other people's hurt. An example is the owner of Fanta Orange. During World War II, the Fanta Orange was also called the Nazi drink because it was sold mostly to Germans. Coca Cola wanted to keep getting a profitable paycheck while people were dying.

Another part in the ideas that really hurt my feelings is the IBM Company, is selling her computers all around the globe with no concern to what it's used for. During World War II the Germans had the IBM computers in every concentration camp. The IBM Company had a contract with the Germans but when they were asked if they have any contracts with the Germans, they denied it even though the contract was told about in a newspaper.
I am relieved, though, that there are some good people that do care and that they have power that helps them make the world a better place. An example for that kind of persons is President Roosevelt; the man had gone against the corporations and their rights. I am very thankful to him.

יום שלישי, 9 בספטמבר 2008

Critical Questions


1. What is the difference between a photograph in the news and a photograph in art?

- The difference between a photograph of news and art is that a photograph of the news gives facts about a specific situation or event in time. A photograph of art, on the other hand, has many sides to it without any particular fact. Each person who sees a photograph of art may have a point-of-view that is different from someone else who saw it.

2. What is the difference between a photographer and a photojournalist?

- Both the photographer and the photojournalist are dealing with photographs but with different styles. The photographer usually takes pictures as his heart desires weather to a specific goal or just as art. A photojournalist, on the other hand, may take only pictures involving events and or facts; for example, journals or the newspaper.

יום ראשון, 7 בספטמבר 2008

Pictures - Story



Media Consumption Log

Sept. 6, 2008

11:00 I woke up
11:00-12:00 I ate breakfast with my family
12:00-14:00 I played the guitar while my brother watched a movie (scary about big killing worms)
15:00-16:00 I washed the dishes and watched the movie "last holiday"
17:00-18:30 I was practicing the guitar for my guitar class with the song "stuck in the middle"
18:30-20:00 I was getting ready for the Welcome Back Dance
20:00-23:00 I was in the Welcome Back Dance

יום רביעי, 27 באוגוסט 2008

Media Consumption

Aug. 24, 2008

8:00 I woke up

8:30-9:30 my siblings were watching kids channel(cartoons) while I ate

9:00-9:30 I played the comp(online games, read my e-mailes, and read articles of HW from websites) .

9:30-10:30 I watched TV(a spanish series called Lalola, it made me laugh)

10:30-12:00 I was doing HW

10:50-11:15 I was doing HW while watching MTV(listening to music, MTV dance)

12:00-13:00 I listened to music in youtube(searching for songs I like)

13:00-15:50 I watched TV (another spanish series called Machos, made me feel mad on guys)

16:00-20:00 I watched TV while playing the comp( checked my other e-mail but looked at the TV more because there was an interesting movie about action, made me feel hungry).

20:00 I went to sleep

יום שלישי, 26 באוגוסט 2008

Who Owns the Media?

“In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the media.” Media can be used for a variety of purposes such as education, entertainment, journalism, public service announcements, and even personal matters. Some types of media include newspapers, magazines, films, radio, television, websites, books, CDs, DVDs, and more.

Media literacy is the ability to understand the messages that we get, hear and that are told to us every day. But, the actual definition of literacy was, the ability to understand and communicate in print. But the world has changed, grew in technology, and media in print is no longer the dominant media format in the world.

The Internet is now called a groundbreaking interactive marketplace of ideas, in which anyone with the right tools can use. But, information used in the internet has many useful online resources. The internet can also include offensive materials such as an attempt to turn the public opinion against certain groups of people.

The media is responsible for many of the experiences and feelings we get and with them we build up our personality and our understandings of the world.

The media also has a great influence on politics and on social change. Television can influence the election of a national leader just by the image we see and by the way that image makes us feel. According to a source, “Even the white house is broadcasting messages to thousands of civilians with public broadcastings. That public broadcasting had found itself in the crosshairs of a partisan firing squad. New and intensifying ideological pressures from the Bush Administration have forced PBS stations to add new programs and alter others, in an attempt to be "more balanced" in the view of the current leadership.”

Media messages can change the way people act, think, and also their attitudes, behaviors and values. But because of that, people can control the media messages they produce; which concludes to the point that the people, and the way the think, own the media.